Knowle Park Primary School

Community school·Primary school Bristol, City of·BS4 2XG
Composite score
42.2
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#10,120
National rank
#1021
In South West
#53
In Bristol, City of
Top 68%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
65%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
96%
81 first choices, 90 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
189
any preference, for 90 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.8620230.9520240.9420250.902026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Knowle Park Primary School yet. Bristol, City of does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
601
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
14.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,305
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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About Knowle Park Primary School

Knowle Park Primary School is a primary school in Bristol, City of, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 601 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 65% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 9.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 96% of the families who made Knowle Park Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.5%. There are about 22.8 pupils per teacher. Knowle Park Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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